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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abscission \Ab*scis"sion\, n. [L. abscissio. See {Abscind}.]
1. The act or process of cutting off ``Not to be cured
without the abscission of a member.'' --Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being cut off --Sir T. Browne.
3. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having
begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus ``He is a man
of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but
I need say no more.''
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
abscission
n 1: shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation
of scar tissue in a plant
2: the act of cutting something off [syn: {cutting off}]
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